Musician Blick Bassy is a member of the nomadic Bassa community in the African country of Cameroon. He now lives in Paris, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots. The World’s Emma Kwesiga Lydersen has this profile.
http://www.myspace.com/blickbassy2
http://www.worldconnection.nl/wclayout/index.php?site_id=37
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On this week’s podcast, one of the world’s oldest bibles finds a new home online. Also, technology updates on the post-election violence in Iran, and the violence in western China. And we’ll end with a story of global online musical cooperation. Rock on.
He’s far too poetic to pass for Martin Scorsese’s Travis Bickle, but the ruminative nighttime cab-driver who narrates “Night Roads,” the fourth novel by Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) wheels guiltily and memorably through the same type of hollowed–out urban apocalypse.
A List of Music Featured Between our reports for July 13, 2009
A List of Music Featured Between our reports for July 13, 2009
